Edna Scott Parker

Edna Scott Parker was an American supercentenarian and, until her death, was recognized as the oldest person in the world

Edna had become Indiana's oldest living person on April 7, 2005 (age 111 years, 352 days) (following the death of then almost-112-year-old Minnie Kearby, who was just six days older at the time) and the state's all-time record holder on January 19, 2007.

She became the oldest living American on February 14, 2007 (age 113 years, 300 days).

She was born on a farm in Morgan County, Indiana, and raised eating a typical farm diet of meat and starch. Edna taught at a two-room schoolhouse in Smithland for several years, until she married her next door neighbour, Earl Parker, on April 12, 1913. Earl died on February 23, 1939 and Edna remained a widow ever since.

They had two sons, Clifford and Earl Jr, both of whom Edna outlived. As of April 2008, she had five grandchildren, fourteen great-grandchildren and thirteen great-great-grandchildren. Her two sisters also are deceased; Georgia lived to be 99, while her sister Opal was 88 when she died.